How does the penalty try work?

[SixteenSixtySix]

An aspect of scoring that is rarely seen nowadays, how does it work? What is the process of it?

 

[goodNumber10]

We see penalty tries pretty much on a weekly basis in every competition - it's not in the slightest a rarity.

If the ref thinks that if not for a penalty infringement a try would have been scored he awards a penalty try.

 

[TheRugbyRef]

Penalty try.
A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team.
A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored in a better position but for foul play by the defending team.
A penalty try is awarded between the goal posts. The defending team may charge the conversion kick after a penalty try.

Is there anything else you wanted to know?

 

[SelimNiai]

A penalty try is given when a floppy haired pillock of a full back decides to ignore the basic requirements of making a tackle and just flies in shoulder first costing us a Test Win in South Africa

 

[SixteenSixtySix]

Penalty try.
A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team.
A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored in a better position but for foul play by the defending team.
A penalty try is awarded between the goal posts. The defending team may charge the conversion kick after a penalty try.

Is there anything else you wanted to know?

So if the kicker missed, then no 5 points?

 

[TheRugbyRef]

So if the kicker missed, then no 5 points?

Erm....not quite.

You get 5 points for the Try, then another 2 for the conversion, 7 in total.
If the kicker misses the conversion then you just get 5 points instead of 7.

One thing to note from a scoring point of view is that a Penalty Try isn't accredited to any particular player, it is just accredited to the team.

 

[SixteenSixtySix]

Erm....not quite.

You get 5 points for the Try, then another 2 for the conversion, 7 in total.
If the kicker misses the conversion then you just get 5 points instead of 7.

One thing to note from a scoring point of view is that a Penalty Try isn't accredited to any particular player, it is just accredited to the team.

I see. This is what I'm confused about in the first place. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[SixteenSixtySix]

We see penalty tries pretty much on a weekly basis in every competition - it's not in the slightest a rarity.

I don't have broadcast to many leagues or cups. Only super rugby, heineken/top 14, and internationals.

 

[goodNumber10]

lol!

 

[Patchey]

Yeah you should be seeing quite a few penalty tries in those then...

 

[Big Ewis]

well nobody's touched on the penalty try figure that comes from a scrum, but that's included in this:
"A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team."

When a defending pack keeps fkn around in the scrum to illegally avoid the pressure of the offensive pack, and they're close to the try line, and the scrums have been reset a few times already, the little goblin referee blows his whistle and runs towards the posts like a proud class A student and signals 5 points have been awarded to the attacking team.
And then of course you see the captain of the defending team jogging up to the ref and following him around like a suckerfish, like he's got anything interesting to say, but still does, whining like a small bish.

Here's a scrum penalty try example here, at 10:00



Note: that's the time when everything was normal in Rugby and France had a dominant scrum and the Wallabies just took it like bishes in there. Rugby gods have decided to MOTHERFK....sorry, I mean, the Rugby gods have decided to change...that.

 

[goodNumber10]

well nobody's touched on the penalty try figure that comes from a scrum, but that's included in this:
"A penalty try is awarded if a try would probably have been scored but for foul play by the defending team."

When a defending pack keeps fkn around in the scrum to illegally avoid the pressure of the offensive pack, and they're close to the try line, and the scrums have been reset a few times already, the little goblin referee blows his whistle and runs towards the posts like a proud class A student and signals 5 points have been awarded to the attacking team.
And then of course you see the captain of the defending team jogging up to the ref and following him around like a suckerfish, like he's got anything interesting to say, but still does, whining like a small bish.

Here's a scrum penalty try example here, at 10:00



Note: that's the time when everything was normal in Rugby and France had a dominant scrum and the Wallabies just took it like bishes in there. Rugby gods have decided to MOTHERFK....sorry, I mean, the Rugby gods have decided to change...that.

That's because the likeliest scenario is that without the p*ssballing about the attacking side would have scored a push over try... hence penalty try.

 

[Big Ewis]

^ indeed. Should've mentioned that in my post. It's not necessarily just because the defending scrum is messing around in the scrum many consecutive times, it can be awarded on one scrum set, like up there.

- So who scored a try ?!
- penalty did.
- ahh, penalty...yes. Penalty try.